History YMMV / NierAutomata

** The hacking minigames can be this for players who don't are not good at shoot 'em ups, especially since many of the more difficult ones are pure BulletHell. This is exacerbated by the fact that, unlike with the other shoot 'em up parts of the game, you can't use any supporting weapons or healing items in the hacking sections, nor does levelling up make them any easier. Most of the plot-critical hacking sections are thankfully on the easier side, but this isn't so with the ones found in [[spoiler:the Soul Box]]; they can be a serious pain in the ass, and you ''need'' to clear them in order to progress with the game.

** On release, the PC port of Automata had a LOT of issues. The game refused to display at the correct resolution, white screens forcing reloads, CTD's and crashes, pre-rendered cutscenes stuttered, among other things. A fan-made mod called ''FAR'' was developed that helped address these problems, but for some people, the crashes were still around and made the game basically impossible to enjoy, and it didn't seem to have much of a rhyme or reason as to why. The port was left in this state for '''4 years''', leading to a lot of criticism towards Square-Enix. A supposedly new port of the game was developed for Microsoft's [=GamePass=] service, which people hoped would fix the problems, but [[https://www.pcgamer.com/sadly-nier-automata-and-the-evil-within-on-game-pass-arent-actually-better-pc-ports/ it didn't.]] A patch was ''finally'' announced in April 2021 and when it finally came out, most of the issues were ''finally'' fixed, making the fan-made FAR mod mostly unnecessary.

** This was also the game that proved that Creator/CheramiLeigh, previously [[PigeonholedVoiceActor pigeonholed]] into [[{{Typecasting}} playing]] [[NiceGirl nice girls]], [[PluckyGirl plucky girls]], or [[GenkiGirl genki girls]], could more than handle [[PlayingAgainstType playing someone]] as bitter and cold as A2.

** This was also the game that proved that Creator/CheramiLeigh, previously [[PigeonholedVoiceActor pigeonholed]] into [[{{Typecasting}} playing]] NiceGirls, PluckyGirls, or GenkiGirls, could more than handle [[PlayingAgainstType playing someone]] as bitter as A2.

** 9S. Oh boy, [[TraumaCongaLine 9S.]] To begin with, [[spoiler:he's executed by the girl he loves more than ''thirty'' times]] before the main story even starts. In the very first battle of Route A, he loses two of his limbs and blows himself up along with 2B to kill the attacking Goliath units, an event which she retains her memories of but he does not. He has his attempts at getting to know his crush continuously rebuffed, and ''then'' he, at some unknown point, [[spoiler:figures out that she's been assigned to kill him.]] After the battle with Grun, he's kidnapped by Adam, who tortures him, ''crucifies'' him, and [[spoiler:taunts him with his knowledge of 2B's true designation.]] After ''that'' happens, he learns that [[spoiler: the entire mission he's been fighting for is a lie and humanity has been dead for millennia]], ''then'' has to immediately throw himself back into the fray again to help 2B [[spoiler:only to become infected with the Logic Virus and asks her to MercyKill him]]. ''Then'' [[spoiler: the Bunker is destroyed and almost everyone he's ever known is killed, and he has to watch the woman he loves die right in front of him.]] And that's before he learns [[spoiler: that [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove 2B loved him back]] and that androids are actually reverse engineered from the Machines they're supposed to destroy, that all of YoRHa was meant to be destroyed [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as soon as it had fulfilled its mission]], he has to watch [[his surrogate mother figure die, the Twins, his only surviving allies, sacrifice themselves to help him enter the tower, he loses an arm ''again'', the Machine Network succeeds in driving him completely insane, he's infected with the Logic Virus ''again'', and he finally dies choking in a pool of his own blood after accidentally impaling himself on A2's sword.]] [[{{Understatement}} Life is not kind to our favorite scanner boy.]]

** 9S. Oh boy, [[TraumaCongaLine 9S.]] To begin with, [[spoiler:he's executed by the girl he loves more than ''thirty'' times]] before the main story even starts. In the very first battle of Route A, he loses two of his limbs and blows himself up along with 2B to kill the attacking Goliath units, an event which she retains her memories of but he does not. He has his attempts at getting to know his crush continuously rebuffed, and ''then'' he, at some unknown point, [[spoiler:figures out that she's been assigned to kill him.]] After the battle with Grun, he's kidnapped by Adam, who tortures him, ''crucifies'' him, and [[spoiler:taunts him with his knowledge of 2B's true designation.]] After ''that'' happens, he learns that [[spoiler: the entire mission he's been fighting for is a lie and humanity has been dead for millennia]], ''then'' has to immediately throw himself back into the fray again to help 2B [[spoiler:only to become infected with the Logic Virus and asks her to MercyKill him]]]]. ''Then'' [[spoiler: the Bunker is destroyed and almost everyone he's ever known is killed, and he has to watch the woman he loves die right in front of him.]] And that's before he learns [[spoiler: that [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove 2B loved him back]] and that androids are actually reverse engineered from the Machines they're supposed to destroy, that all of YoRHa was meant to be destroyed [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as soon as it had fulfilled its mission]], he has to watch [[his surrogate mother figure die, the Twins, his only surviving allies, sacrifice themselves to help him enter the tower, he loses an arm ''again'', the Machine Network succeeds in driving him completely insane, he's infected with the Logic Virus ''again'', and he finally dies choking in a pool of his own blood after accidentally impaling himself on A2's sword.]] [[{{Understatement}} Life is not kind to our favorite scanner boy.]]

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Chinese love ''Nier Automata'' to the point that ''Creator/YuiIshikawa'' often voiced for several popular Chinese-made games, such as ''Videogame/AzurLane'', ''Videogame/{{Arknights}}'', and ''Videogame/PunishingGrayRaven'', among others, while not straying too much from the stoic archetype and silver or blonde haired appearance.

** Even without the context of ''{{NieR}}'', the twist can be easy to figure out as early as the Council’s first canned message when the player arrives at the Desert, as [[spoiler:higher-ups masking an AwfulTruth and lying to their subordinates]] is a pretty common drama trope.

** “2Booty” is used to refer to 2B’s… [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, booty.]] So much so that the most popular NieR porn subreddit is straight-up called r/2Booty.

* AccidentalInnuendo: If you, as 9S, manage to put down all of air defence machine units at the start of Route C, 21O tells him that she has a "special surprise" for him in her bedroom (the surprise in question, turns out to be some plugin chips). Made even worse by it being ''heavily'' implied in game that 21O views 9S as family.

* AccidentalInnuendo: If you, as 9S, manage to put down all of air defence machine units at the start of Route C, 21O tells him that she has a "special surprise" for him in her bedroom (the surprise, in question, turns out to be some plugin chips). Made even worse by it being ''heavily'' implied in game that 21O views 9S as family.

** Commander White, to an extent. While she doesn’t appear much, she’s pretty damn popular with fanartists because of her design... and is also featured in almost as much porn as 2B herself, which is no small feat.

* PolishedPort: The Nintendo Switch version, also known as The End of [=YoRHa=] Edition, while having the caveat of running at 30fps as opposed to 60 and the usual lower texture resolution, is masterfully done by Virtuos, as their impressive track record of porting games to the Switch holds true here. Not only does it maintain a stable frame rate cap throughout with very few dips in busier scenes, docked or portable, it also boasts all the previously released DLC included in the base game at launch, as well as a few new exclusive DLC costumes based on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV 2P]], Pod Skins based on [[VideoGame/NierReincarnation [=NieR=] Re[in]carnation]], as well as an exclusive kimono outfit and accessories (which can be equipped right out of the gate after the intro battle). The same can't be said for...

* AccidentalInnuendo: If you, as 9S, manage to put down all of air defence machine units at the start of Route C, 21O tells you that she has a "special surprise" for him in her bedroom (the surprise, in question, turns out to be some plugin chips). Made even worse by it being ''heavily'' implied in game that 21O views 9S as family.

** [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/229/370/91a.jpg It's all fucking lewds!!!]][[note]]Twitter fan art of 2B yelling toward the invisible audience, turned away from a computer screen while looking quite mortified was translated with her saying this distinctive phrase in reaction to apparently her finding UnfortunateSearchResults of herself. This art led to other takes and versions from it.[[/note]]

* SelfFanservice: Even 2B gets this despite already being a MsFanservice. Her in-game character model is fit and skinny, but because of the memetic-ness of her PantyShot moments, R34 artists tend to give her curves rivaling someone like VideoGame/{{Haydee}}. Even her own character page on this very wiki attributes HartmanHips and an ImpossibleHourglassFigure to her! (although this may be people confusing the stylized promotional art with her actual model)

* PolishedPort: The Nintendo Switch version, also known as The End of [=YoRHa=] Edition, while having the caveat of running at 30fps as opposed to 60 and lower texture resolution, is masterfully done by Virtuos, as their impressive track record of porting games to the Switch holds true here. Not only does it maintain a stable frame rate cap throughout with very few dips in busier scenes, docked or portable, it also boasts all the DLC included in the base game at launch, as well as a few new exclusive DLC costumes based on [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV 2P]], Pod Skins based on [[VideoGame/NierReincarnation [=NieR=] Re[in]carnation]], as well as an exclusive kimono outfit and accessories. The same can't be said for...

** 2B has a character arc where she starts as gruff professional soldier who only sees the machines as a target to be eliminated, but during the events of the game she [[spoiler:gradually starts to soften up and begins to see conflict in less black-and-white terms, especially after having met peaceful machines like Pascal.]] But then [[spoiler:she dies, never learning the truths behind the whole conflict that 9S and A2 discover]], and the exact same arc is given to A2, except in a more truncated form.

** 2B has a character arc where she starts as gruff professional soldier who only sees the machines as a target to be eliminated, but during the events of the game she [[spoiler:gradually starts to soften up and begins to see conflict in less black-and-white terms, especially after having met peaceful machines like Pascal.]] But then [[spoilers:she dies, never learning the truths behind the whole conflict that 9S and A2 discover]], and the exact same arc is given to A2, except in a more truncated form.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: A2 has less screen time than the two other main characters and if you didn't watch the stage play her character doesn't have much development. For English-language players this is a bigger problem, as said play ''isn't officially available'' to them in any form.

** The hacking minigames can be this for players who don't are not good at shoot 'em ups, especially since many of the more difficult ones are pure BulletHell. This is exacerbated by the fact that, unlike with the other shoot 'em up sections of the game, you can't use any supporting weapons or healing items in the hacking sections, nor does levelling up make them any easier. Most of the plot-critical hacking sections are thankfully on the easier side, but this isn't so with the ones found in [[spoiler:the Soul Box]]; they can be a serious pain in the ass, and you ''need'' to clear them in order to progress with the game.

** The hacking minigames can be this for players who don't are not good at shoot 'em ups, especially since many of the more difficult ones are pure BulletHell. This is exacerbated by the fact that, unlike with the other shoot 'em up sections of the game, you can't use any supporting weapons or healing items in the hacking sections, nor does levelling up make them any easier. Most of the plot-critical hacking sections are thankfully on the easier side, but this isn't so with the ones found in [[spoiler:the Soul Box]]; they can be a serious pain in the ass, and you ''need'' to clear in order to progress with the game.